Tampa Police Department

What brokers know about a Tampa PD officer

Run a scan on a Tampa PD officer and the same details show up: full name, current address, prior addresses, a spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages, and the vehicle. The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser record shows what you paid for the house.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Property Appraiser publishes property records online, including owner name, mailing address, and parcel data, and the brokers copy from it directly. Officers cluster in the same suburbs year after year, so a zip-code search in Brandon, Riverview, FishHawk, Valrico, Lutz, or Wesley Chapel, or across the bridges into Pinellas and Pasco, returns a recognizable list.

What Florida law lets you do

Florida Statute 119.071(4)(d) makes the home address, phone number, date of birth, photographs, and the names and schools of children confidential for active and former sworn law enforcement, and for many other public servants. You file a written request with each agency that holds your records, and those fields become exempt from public disclosure.

The Property Appraiser is a separate records custodian. You have to file with that office directly to redact your home address from the property record. In Hillsborough County the request goes to the Property Appraiser at 813-272-6100. It's an easy step to overlook. If you live in Pasco or Pinellas, file with each county's appraiser as well.

Florida's Marsy's Law is a victim-rights amendment to the state constitution. It was used to withhold officer names in some cases. In November 2023 the Florida Supreme Court ruled it does not shield the names of officers involved in on-duty use-of-force incidents, which narrowed how far it reaches. The confidentiality protections under 119.071 stand on their own.

One federal law works in the background. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull the personal details in your Florida DMV and vehicle-registration records, and it lets you sue for at least $2,500 when someone takes them without a permitted purpose. It won't pull a listing down on its own. We don't file DPPA suits, but the address and plate data those records feed are the same details we work to remove from the broker sites.

What still leaks

Even after you file, three sources stay open:

1. Property records published before you filed. Anything online before your redaction request was already copied by brokers. Re-running removals after the redaction matters.
2. Court records. The Hillsborough County Clerk of Court publishes dockets online. Civil, family, and traffic filings can show an address unless it was redacted when filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't answer to Florida law. They pull from national aggregators.

Your family is in the same records

A broker profile doesn't stop at you. Every relative it names is a link to that person's own page, so one search on your name turns into a directory of the people around you and where each of them lives.

Florida makes this sharper. Officer names get released in news coverage of incidents, and the 2023 Marsy's Law ruling confirmed those names are public. The same dynamic shows up in Miami-Dade and at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. A name in a local story becomes a name brokers can attach to your address and your relatives.

Your family goes through the same removal work you do.

What we do

We scan the people-search sites we track, file removals on the listings that match you, and keep checking for records that come back, including after a Hillsborough, Pasco, or Pinellas Property Appraiser update, since a fresh property record can be one way a listing reappears. When a listing returns, we file again. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you.

Run a free scan to see what's exposed under your name.

If your department or union wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.